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Stowe Family Law

Founded in 1982, Stowe Family Law has grown to become the UK’s largest standalone family law firm with offices in Central London, North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Hertfordshire, Hampshire & Kent.

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David Cameron has been accused of misquoting polling results on public attitudes to gay marriage. The Prime Minister had written to former Welsh secretary Cheyl Gllan, after the latter criticised the government’s plans to legislate for gay marriage. In his letter, which later appeared on the site Pink News, Mr Cameron wrote: “Of course, we…

British pilot Jean Cattin has won an Appeal Court ruling that his divorce from Brazilian wife Silvana should be heard in a British court. At the original hearing in the High Court Family Division, Mrs Justice Parker had refused to block UK divorce proceedings begun by Mr Cattin, after his wife argued that the divorce…

A new definition of disadvantage currently under consideration by the government could include children whose parents are divorced. Secretary of State for Work and Penisions Iain Duncan Smith will today launch a consultation on expanding the definition of child poverty beyond low income. Other factors would also be considered, such as the education level of…

The Alaska Supreme Court is considering an appeal in from the state government against a ruling that it had violated equal protection laws by not offering same sex couples the same tax exemptions as heterosexual couples. In September 2011, Judge Frank Pfiffner of the state’s Superior Court said that an amendment to the Constitution of…

Two investigations have been launched in Ireland into the death of a woman in childbirth who had been refused an abortion. Savita Halappanavar died at University Hospital, Galway on 28 October. According to a BBC report, the 31 year-old dentist, originally came from India, repeatedly asked for an abortion before her death as she was…

Money can buy you many things and fame can get you a decent table in exclusive restaurants, but neither will shield you from a broken heart. When it comes to the emotional pains and strains of divorce and separation, the rich and famous are just as vulnerable as the rest of us. In a recently…

US comedienne and actress Janeane Garofalo was legally married for 20 years to a former boyfriend without knowing it, she recently revealed. Garofolo, now 48, married comedy writer Robert Cohen in Las Vegas in 1991, not realising that the ceremony, at drive-through wedding chapel, was legally valid and not simply the joke they had intended….

The care system has become too risk averse and “overly protective”, claims charity the Fostering Network. Speaking at the Fostering Network’s annual conference yesterday, Chief Executive Robert Tapsfield said current bans on making decisions for children prevented foster carers from using their own discrimination and judgement in everyday situations: “Ensuring fostered children are safe is…

A group of Conservative MPs have written to the Telegraph calling on the Prime Minister to deliver on an election manifesto promise to bring in “budget resolutions to introduce transferable tax allowances for married couples”. The MPs write: “We are now past the half way point of this Parliament and, as Conservative MPs, we are…

Universal credit may mean work does not pay for some single parent families, the charity Gingerbread has claimed. Universal credit is a new unified benefit which will be paid to people looking for work while on a low income from next year. The government claims that it is designed to simply the benefits system and…